in other words if you look at. the mortality rate among heroin users it's very hard to estimate what percentage of that is attributable to air when itself and would be a problem even if their own were legal and what percentage of it is attributable to prohibition i would i would argue that the vast majority of that is good. but it's very hard to tell without you know repealing the laws and see saying what actually happens we know from comparisons with illegal use of similar substances that they don't pose anything like that are associated with illicit era we know if you look at the market before when these drugs were banned we also know that they do that the people who use them are necessarily social outcasts as they are are today typically the typical users of drugs like opiates and. before these drugs were banned were not you know part of the demi monde they were very often middle class housewives people would be considered to be respectable so

a lot of the associations that we have we have these illegal drugs are part of programs into while definitely interesting to see how the people respond to this is of course was done in the u.k. and not here in the u.s. where waging a very long a very expensive drug war will have to wait and see on that but thanks for your input here jacob if you. want time for a break but still to come a congressional race in kansas earns a tool time of war from our show i'll tell you more in just a moment and we'll have a little fun with the help of a rapper and comedian colorado he's going to show off his talents of the little rap here and the alone studio back in a moment. broadcasting live from our studios and. get right to our headlines storm.

becomes the first russian leader to visit the island sparking anger in japan moscow denounced the protest saying the president does not need permission to travel across his own country tokyo has claimed sovereignty of the island since the end of world war two. baghdad's christian community takes to the streets over iraq the security forces handling of the deadly. fifty eight day many now question if the police are capable of maintaining security in the country more than one million christians have been forced to flee the country because of sectarian violence since two thousand and three. the enemy shouldn't exist anymore and must be left in history we view russia as a strategic we've got mutual interests russia and germany set the tone for the upcoming nato lisbon summit but moscow wants more clarity from nato about the alliance is. my colleague carrie johnson will be in about thirty minutes with

a full look at your news but first we go back to washington for the second part of the show now and an in-depth look at jon stewart's rally to restore sanity and the issues it raised. well it's time for tonight's tool time award and we're going to go ahead and give it to a businessman in kansas for his endorsement of a candidate see the race in the fourth congressional district pits mike pompei against raj boyle both men were born and raised in wichita kansas but boyle is indian american as if that's even an issue but regardless things have done very very ugly during this campaign back in august tweeted out an article referring to his opponent's indian american heritage as an evil turban topper calling it a good rate so shortly after the tweet the campaign released a full apology claiming that it was an honest mistake i'm not really sure that being

a blatant bigot as of the you can apologize with the whole honest mistake excuse but this is america right well now what upon his biggest supporters has shown his true colors to john ag who runs an insurance agency in the district placed to digital billboards above the building houses his company and the first features an image of pompei along with the phrase true americans vote for a second billboard says vote american vote pompei the us catch that not so subtle reference to vote american you get it get it his opponent's native americans and that makes him not a real american now the campaign released a petition over the weekend calling on the pompei a campaign to denounce those billboards and have them taken down to the owner of the insurance agency john act well he had one plugged in one question about the ads he said in an e-mail we're garlands of the outcome of the elections next tuesday everyone needs to feel that they are americans yes john x. everybody needs to feel that they are americans but you put up billboards as

a way to draw attention to indian american heritage and that's both ignorant and appalling which is exactly why you are tonight's tool time when. now this past weekend jon stewart and stephen colbert brought hundred. thousands of people to the national mall for a rally to restore sanity and or keep fear alive now they had fun doing songs comedic skits they had several very big name musical numbers but they waited until the very end of the rally to really point the fingers explicitly at who they think the responsible party is and they chose to point out bigger squarely at the mainstream cable networks take a look at. the only place we don't. but i don't. think. now fox news

who's used to being ridiculed on a daily basis by stewart and called there they had a nice little chuckle this morning on fox and friends about that whole little rat thing little bit about what happened in d.c. yesterday there was this big rally put on by comedians which many people unfortunately think are news people jon stewart and what's in the guy's name with all their of those two had did they call it the insanity something or restore sanity or restore sanity. anyway look at all the people that showed up sure. apparently gretchen as i've said that people actually think that these men are newspeople funny because i think the same thing has been said about her and she seems or pretends to be one hundred confused by this whole stephen colbert character who is he from my favorite part is what seems like genuine pity and all those poor souls who actually showed up at that weird little liberal rally boxes counterpart m s n b c they weren't quite as jovial or dismissive about their

inclusion in the montage that was used to show the scaremongering tactics of cable news host keith olbermann immediately took to his twitter account to defend himself by saying that stewart showed his true naivete by trying to paint all the media as the same in fact apparently if it wasn't for keith olbermann the we'd be waging another iraq war didn't you guys know that now his fellow and that's n.b.c. or chris matthews he seemed outraged wounded by being branded as part of the problem and he took a few swipes at the student rallies biggest cheerleader arianna huffington. would likely find glass and put it on all the things that are working in this country just because it would you want to get close to it was very hard it was no accident on the highway one is not a good night's sleep i mean this is you can make. fun of what you're proposing because if you're just. you know he really seemed like he was trying to keep it together there's best

responsible but clearly chris was upset well it's now been over forty eight hours since the rally and there's been article after article written about whether or not it was a good thing whether or not it served any real purpose other than to the unite liberals and their superiority over the right but the clear loser here was m s n b c who was portrayed as an equivalent to fox and for that they were not pleased you know what maybe you guys should actually listen to what jon stewart said and sort of cry about it maybe you should realize why i think you guys are so completely different than the other part of the network is part of the problem. we know one more. time this recession and terror and war sometimes the best way to come back to reality termer the world is not going to end right this very second is through humor satire sanity i think that john stewart and stephen colbert rally on the

national mall this weekend they proved that with at least two hundred thousand people in america that seem to agree with that and we've found another comedian who helps bring humor into our daily lives and he doesn't help from hollywood but rather for jr and he's even going to give us a performance so joining me now is rapper and comedian. barry thanks so much for being in the studio thank you for your stuff is hilarious i have to admit i mean you walked into the studio today and everybody recognized you because you have a lot of fans here tell me what do you do it you do this you know i don't know just to spread joy or are you going for the money i know you have an i tunes account there were people can purchase your album that's true that's true but no i think that's what i what i think anybody who's ever told a joke. and gotten sort of a positive response can sympathize with the fact this kind of fun there's a joy aspect to it you know i enjoy. creating something and having people enjoy it and hearing people laugh or or getting positive feedback about it so it's it's

basically that it's just you know from the first joke you know you know on the playground at school it's just that but like you know it's just sort of there anything political about it and trying to spread any messages or is it you know like i was making the comparison kind of to remind people that there are things that can be laughed at and you know have to fear everything and you know there's nothing really political about the stuff i do a lot of it's you know well that's going to be well documented here in a few minutes but. the stuff i got to do is a little silly and can be mindless at a time when we're going to play a clip of one of your we're going to start with one of them let's play the arlington a rap shall we. so that you. would. like. to see a cool guy but just like those who would not go we. don't. because that's not the only thing being told to. sit down that.

would have. to come up like. we're not so much like. i mean i think that's hilarious because i live here in the d.c. area obviously do you think people who don't live in arlington don't get this well i've got a lot of feedback from people who live different places which kind of you know it's the kind of like white trailer shows what i know because i made the video and i almost didn't post that one because i was like nobody's nobody said it was great though i mean what i want to like that was pretty popular on the internet wasn't it so impressive. we had a lot of fans. are lucky you know what i did why did you make that just to just yeah i was going to a new neighborhood arlington virginia and. specifically clarendon move there and it's just it's kind of like a real quirky place you know and you start. sort of start occurring to you when you're there you're like i don't really want to make a video about this but then i just got to the point where it was just unbearable

this urge to write the video just so you know i mean i do it well i think your next book really resonates with a lot of people anyone that has to get to work on the daily this is the the metro rap let's play that one. person. has to train. for you. because. i think a lot of people can understand that the being on the metro is kind of hellish sometimes you. know i don't i don't hate the metro but it is just kind of going back to what i was mentioning about that i wanted to but it was just one of those another one of those quirky experiences where i think a lot of people have wrote on their metro i call somebody should do a joke about this or somebody should write a song about this but i just have way more spare time than those people well you do

it well you know it definitely works and lastly you have a falafel album that's out there what's on the album yeah this new album that i put out a month ago comedy central put out the sound and it's called the falafel album and it has a bunch of my new songs actually that metro song was the first single off that album now is the one you're going to perform for us in one second this one is saudis and. the album that is on the album that's the newest one can we hear it before i would love to. so let's let's do it right me thank you so much for joining us to the audience i hope you enjoy this live performance that we're about to have on the a lot of show it's pretty good otherwise you can also watch the video online because it's hilarious. you know some time you see. a saudi driving an audi. rather.

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places. even the. holes in the ground so you're losing your moustache or your must. take you so much great when you are there. are sort of. op ed in the washington post says the u.s. could boost the economy and get the nation or rally around the idea of war with iraq my implied nothing about this shameful column in just a moment and because nationwide headlines a duke students sexless which went viral a few months ago well now it's back in the news again as a professor at the college wants to discuss the historical perspectives of that list just a moment. i

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you know there are bad ideas and then there are really horrible terrible second in watts and david broder congers the washington post well he had one of the latter yesterday. and i guess was the time to praise obama for an broder's words being much smarter than his challengers in either party when he looked ahead to the two thousand and twelve election and to the prospects for economic growth and just like that's broader seems to think that he had solved all of obama's problems is there is absolutely no telling how the business cycle the markets are going to be reacting because that's out of the government's control has said that obama should spend much of two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve orchestrating a showdown with iran yet just start another war and all will be fixed now broader

claim at the end of his piece that he isn't actually vacating for war just a little fear mongering to rally the nation because quote iran is the greatest threat to the world in the young century now broader pointed to world war two with the perfect example which got this country out of the great depression so overworked bad why should i work now. where do i begin how about the fact that toying with the idea of war is an election tool is just sick is that really what we've come to where war is an option is thrown around so easily by the media and in our political rhetoric in general are you people crazy man what have been tightening our belts to looming budget cuts to reduce our deficit so we don't keep spending our way into oblivion you know war is not the massive production machine it used to be they were already involved in two of them currently and you can see the wonders they haven't done for the economy but again war means putting lives at

risk ultimately it means death it means destruction destabilization turmoil and never should it mean hate easy electioneer because what it does that's all we know or untrue. now do you guys remember the story of a duke university student who jokingly created an entire thesis about her sexual exploits on campus her name is karen owen and while her writings left many a duke university athlete with either a tarnished or perhaps a heightened reputation thanks to her detailed account of how good they were in bed well it actually spread far beyond that and it took the news world by storm why would she do such a thing as she is slut and she just like every other female college student are the men the victims who leaked it because this show how nothing is private on the internet anymore there were millions of questions being asked and it seems like some of the duke faculty and how they have decided to make her entire story an

educational matter and a letter sent out to history majors a dupe they're now invited to a forum to discuss the historical perspectives on karen o. and sex list and i'm not making that up either the letter even says that the idea simply is that karen owen isn't a person in a vacuum but rather someone within a particular historical context subject to all the contin. season forces of her time in place and the students and the faculty the form well they're going to figure out exactly what those contingencies and those forces are but i think the real question here is are they overblowing this or is carell an age group creation of the forces of our time when joining me from detroit to discuss it is text from last night co-founder and later ben nice to have you on the show again i get you going to be back you know give me your opinion first do you think that this kind of a story this sex list that she made really deserves to have its own forum.

you know i don't know i don't see this being anything new i mean it's just it's new to the masses and i mean for turning to have this for years and i know many sorority girls that would talk about their exploits at length quite a bit and you know i don't see this is being something that's like a brand new shocking discovery to anybody people have sex people talk about it she just did it in a little bit more of an analytical way if you can say getting a major in. a little endeavor well that's what i was wondering if you were a participant of this forum what would you say the historical contingencies and forces are of karen's time in place aside from the fact that i don't know i guess college girls these days are kind of slutty. i guess it was more of a thing of being at the right place at the right time for something like this to turn a series of you know somewhat calculated albeit drunken into something that could be i don't know a book a t.v.

deal i mean i know she does work you know and some of these things are there she is and it's kind of one of those ideas of like we're living in a really strange time where you know pushing said and isn't really by any means the only time said will be pushed and things can be shared so easily and you know something like this can happen to believe by accident and you know sometimes going to be looked over and sometimes it's going to get you know a lot of traction and actually be quite entertaining and you know hopefully she is able to make something out of it how much do you want about the karen allen is one of the people that has sent a text from last night to your website at some point or another you know honestly i think that there was one that we might have gotten and it was the bring him home back to my room with all the exclamation points i'm pretty sure that was sent in. to vent her you know if anybody ever held an educational forum about texting last night about your website because you could say that your website is like karen how

in story but just amplified times a million. well under what computing appears they mention that and we didn't write or what computer pages they mention that there was a deeper sociological subtext to types from last night which we found pretty entertaining we just looks for things that make us less cringe or i guess think a little bit and it's kind of funny that you can look at it in a much deeper way just to think what does this mean about society what does it mean about our generation. i just think it means we have fun and we're a little bit more open to talking about it but the other side i guess yeah i wonder you know i mean do you kind of our city it's not it's not an ivy league but this is one of the you know very well established well regarded universities in this country you'd think that they would take on subjects that seem a little bit more serious because to as i mean it's just i don't know that just seems like that's how young people are these days but i guess you could say that it's it's these older professors that are trying to get into the young people's

minds and really think you're figure out what's going on or are they just trying to prove that they're you know cool with the times that they're holding a form in this. well i think something that got this much attention is a little bit too big to ignore and it's specially the fact that it happened on duke's campus i mean in the past i don't know their official stance are from tucker max but i know that's another story that you know maybe they missed a point of you know discourse about that topic and now this is kind of them making up for it and i think this is honestly. kind of one of the more interesting stories that come out of this internet age and this is where you are quick to come out of the internet age and people growing up digitally you know we're prone to share whether our names are chatter attached or not and i think they're jumping in at a good point to have you know an honest discussion about what's happening and what this means for future generations now tell me this because maybe you and i see this differently because i'm a female and you're male but you know one of the stories that i found to be so

absolutely just i don't know i guess disgusting and disturbing it was and we heard about frat boys at yale they were walking around chanting yes means no no means yes and yes means anal i mean i think that's something the university should be holding forums about how can we fix that kind of culture and that kind of a mindset not necessarily you know a bunch of guys got written about you know how well they did in bed but maybe that's just my female insensitivity talking. little things so little i think that you make a really good point there and i think that one thing that this talk will do is kind of make people little bit more comfortable but the fact that you know we can talk about sex openly and that there needs to be this kind of communication so we don't have people running around saying that no means yes and yes means anal and that's obviously no where near what reality would say and you know something like this i guess might be a little bit easier to swallow for you know academic discussion even though maybe

the more important discussion is you know what you brought up but i think sex as a whole needs to be a little bit war transparent we need to. talking about it a bit more not transparent and you shouldn't make power points for you slept with but i guess in this case it's a start why not add that to sound so i just. have i any new news from jackson last night you can fill us in on any new favorite tracks. oh well i mean the whole we know obviously was this weekend and we got some really good stuff in a lot of it's going to be going up in the next couple days but one of my favorites is from chicago and is so much better on drugs why didn't anyone let us know about this when we were kids. thank you for your kids or is was me eating candy. specific drugs for kids i guess yeah i guess you could say that or a ticket from ohio for our bad boy thank you so much for for joining us on this interesting times we live in i guess is it's

a great. thing. our before we go it's time for our tweet of the day it's election eve but after tomorrow really get a break from all the crazy scary over the top campaign ads at least for a short period of time so here's our tweet tonight about this round of election commercials and say cigarette ads have been banned on t.v. for years line up political ads are more toxic but i must admit we are kind of going to miss them are you guys that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in make sure you come back tomorrow night we're going to have kayla williams on the show she's the author of a book called i love my rifle more than you she's a former sergeant in military intelligence company of the hundred first airborne division we're also going to have a package on why and how china has turned into the new international boogie man in this year's elections and since when did russia the ultimate bogeyman go out of book you don't want to miss it now in the meantime don't forget to become

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